You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.